The Oresteian Trilogy Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides
by Aeschylus; Vellacott, Philip; Vellacott, Philip; Vellacott, PhilipFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1956-12-30
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
ls"Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a housers"s life With darkness, treachery and strifers" (47Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the herors"s discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wifers"s infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestrars"s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furiesrs" law of vengeance and depicts Athene replacing the bloody cycle of revenge with a system of civil justice. Written in the years after the Battle of Marathon, The Oresteian Trilogy affirmed the deliverance of democratic Athens not only from Persian conquest, but also from its own barbaric past. Philip Vellacottrs"s verse translation makes this eternal dramatic masterpiece accessible for the modern reader. In his introduction, he examines the historical context and the literary style of the plays.
Author Biography
Aeschylus was born of a noble family near Athens in 525 BC. He took part in the Persian Wars and his epitaph, said to have been written by himself, represents him as fighting at Marathon. At some time in his life he appears to have been prosecuted for divulging the Eleusinian mysteries, but he apparently proved himself innocent. Aeschylus wrote more than seventy plays, of which seven have survived: The Suppliants, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. (All are translated for Penguin Classics.) He visited Syracuse more than once at the invitation of Hieron I and he died at Gela in Sicily in 456 BC. Aeschylus was recognized as a classic writer soon after his death, and special privileges were decreed for his plays.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 9 | (32) | |||
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| Appendix | 195 | (2) | |||
| Select Bibliography | 197 | (2) | |||
| The Pronunciation of Greek Names | 199 | (4) | |||
| Genealogical Table of the House of Atreus | 203 |
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